Trivia and Amazing Facts
- The correct response to the Irish greeting, "Top of the morning to you," is "And the rest of the day to yourself"
- HOW HIGH IS THE REGULATION BASKETBALL HOOP? It is 10 feet above the floor
- HOW MUCH DID AMERICANS SPEND ON PIZZAS IN 1988? $20 billion, according to the National Association of Pizza Operations
- Experience supersonic hearing! If you're stuck chatting up a mumbler at a cocktail party, lean in with your right ear. It's better than your left at following the rapid rhythms of speech, according to researchers at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. If, on the other hand, you're trying to identify that song playing softly in the elevator, turn your left ear toward the sound. The left ear is better at picking up music tones
- The number 4 is the only number, in the English language, that has the same number of letters in its name as its meaning
